Grace Gong
Venture with Grace
I host a top VC podcast called Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com). Past guests include C-level/VPs of Google, Meta, Amazon, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, Lyft, etc. Managing Partners of top funds (many were featured on the Forbes Midas List) and unicorn founders (founders of Craigslist, Square, Loom, Cruise, etc.) Venture with Grace is my new spin-off series that features top LPs, GPs, solo GPs, Angel Investors, top AI founders, and other experts in tech and business to cover specific domain expertise. Watch this Live on LinkedIn/ YouTube: Grace Gong
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Jason Goodison, General Compute CTO on the Future of AI Inference 25.07.2026 50:34
Jason Goodison is the Co-Founder and CTO of General Compute, an AI infrastructure company building one of the fastest inference clouds by leveraging alternatives to traditional GPUs to dramatically reduce latency and cost for AI workloads. The company is developing next-generation infrastructure that enables developers and enterprises to run large language models more efficiently at scale. Before...
Sue Xu, Amino Capital Managing Partner on Data Moat Investing 25.07.2026 1:02:27
Sue Xu, Ph. D. is Managing Partner at Amino Capital, an early-stage venture firm in Palo Alto investing across AI, SaaS, consumer, Web3, and frontier technologies with a core focus on data moats and network effects. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators. Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with f...
Andrew Dai, Elorian AI CEO on the Future of Multimodal Intelligence 25.07.2026 55:38
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Alisa Cohn, Executive Coach on Scaling Leaders from Startup to CEO 25.07.2026 50:42
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Swaroop Jagadish & Shirshanka Das, DataHub Co-Founders on Data Infra 20.07.2026 1:09:15
Swaroop Jagadish is the Co-Founder and CEO, and Shirshanka Das is the Co-Founder and CTO of DataHub, an enterprise metadata and AI context platform helping organizations build trusted data foundations for humans and AI agents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators. Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and s...
Kobie Fuller, Upfront Ventures Partner on LA Tech & AI-First SaaS 20.07.2026 54:21
Kobie Fuller is a Partner at Upfront Ventures, where he invests in AI-first enterprise software, marketing technology, retail enablement, and frontier technologies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators. Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyp...
Junchen Jiang, Tensormesh CEO on Faster, Cheaper LLM Inference 20.07.2026 57:55
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Chi Zhang, Kite AI Co-Founder & CEO on Building Agentic Internet 20.07.2026 1:02:41
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Anvisha Pai, Moda CEO on AI Design Assets Eliminating "AI Slop" 20.07.2026 1:01:35
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Kris Billmaier, Salesforce EVP & GM Sales Cloud on Agentic AI 11.07.2026 59:42
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Evaline Tsai, Gigascale Partner on Deep Tech and Climate Breakthroughs 11.07.2026 1:00:33
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Randall Hom, Hostie Co-Founder & CEO on AI for Restaurant Hospitality 10.07.2026 58:16
Randall Hom is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hostie. Disclosure: Grace is an investor in Hostie. Hostie is an AI-powered guest communications platform that helps restaurants automate phone calls, texts, emails, and reservations while delivering a more seamless hospitality experience. Hostie integrates directly with reservation and point-of-sale systems, enabling restaurants to automate more than 80% o...
Brett Liu, Sixty Degree Capital VC on Cybersecurity and AI Infra 10.07.2026 1:02:05
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Paul Lam, Bot Auto Chief Strategy Officer on Autonomous Trucking 04.07.2026 1:00:55
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Lena Stocker, VC from DTCP Growth on European B2B Software Investing 04.07.2026 53:29
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Kai Mak, Together AI CRO on Scaling Enterprise AI Adoption 04.07.2026 53:29
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Zach Aarons, MetaProp Co-Founder & GP on PropTech Investment 04.07.2026 53:07
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Edo Segal, Napster CTO on AI, Creativity, and Human-AI Systems 29.06.2026 58:59
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Fernando Fabre, Kauffman Fellows CEO on Building Venture Ecosystems 29.06.2026 1:01:01
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Ryan Gavin, Slack EVP & CMO on AI-Powered Enterprise Growth 22.06.2026 38:33
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Sasha Orloff, Puzzle, Founder & CEO on Real-Time Accounting 22.06.2026 49:40
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Pat Casey, ServiceNow CTO & EVP on AI Platforms and Enterprise DevOps 22.06.2026 1:06:47
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